Untried Polish Challenge: Cheapest

Wednesday, May 15, 2013
5/15/2013 02:04:00 PM

Day 9 people! Can you believe I made it 9 days with this challenge so far? I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty damn proud of myself. Today's theme for the Untried Polish Challenge is Cheapest. Today I have for you, coming in at $2.99, Color Club's Sky High.

Sky High is actually a glass fleck polish with a blue and purple duo-chrome finish. I have no idea how people photograph duo-chromes. I took around 100 pictures (that may be an exaggeration but I for the life of me, couldn't get the purple to show in a single picture.

I love the way this polish looks. The only bad news, is this is a stainer. Big time. Not only do you get the little glass flecks all over your skin, it turns you blue like Violet Beauregarde from Charlie & the Chocolate Factory. It's a total bummer when polishes do that.

If you have tips on photographing duo-chromes, let me know? Please and Thank You!

Don't forget to go check out the other lovely ladies participating in this challenge. They can be found below.

yeah I was gonna say that: often duos come out better in florescent or sometimes if you can get "diffuse" light, like filter sunlight through a window shade or something, that will often allow both colors to show by getting rid of that stripe of shine. I take mine under a not-so-dark window shade, so I dunno what else might work, maybe a thick piece of paper over a window or lamp?

I try turning my nails at different angles to pick up the colours for duochrome swatches; I usually just take my pictures near the window in sunlight and they come out OK. Some of my best duochrome pics (Enchanted Octopus's Garden) were taken on a walk on the beach on a sunny day! And always, the underwater trick works like magic - just be careful not to dip your lens in the water!